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title: Proverbs 29:25 (JPS 1917) — The fear of man bringeth a snare; but whoso putteth his trust in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fear of man bringeth a snare; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be set up on high. Who acts: fear, whoso, man. Proverbs 29:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 29:25 · JPS 1917

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The fear of man bringeth a snare; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be set up on high.

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**Who acts:** fear, whoso, man · **What happens:** bring, put, set up, fear, trust · **To what, where:** snare, trust, man

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This is Proverbs 29:25 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear, whoso, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:PRO:857
# text = The fear of man bringeth a snare; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be set up on high.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	bringeth	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
10	whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	putteth	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	csubj:pass	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	high	high	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | the fear of man | a snare |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent snare=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | present | whoso | man's trust |  |  |  | in the LORD | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trust=Theme in lord=Destination |
| 3 | **set up** | shall · passive | the fear of man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» |
| 4 | **fear** |  |  | man |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **trust** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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חֶרְדַּ֣ת אָ֭דָם יִתֵּ֣ן מוֹקֵ֑שׁ וּבוֹטֵ֖חַ בַּיהוָ֣ה יְשֻׂגָּֽב׃

[Proverbs 29:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.25/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:857` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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